Education
2020 – 2024 McMaster University
Doctor of Philosophy
English Literature
2018 – 2020 Concordia University
Master of Arts
English Literature
Teaching
1. McMaster University
English 4QA3 / Gender Studies 6QA3: “Queerness in the Archives” Fall 2024
English 1F03: “The Written World” Summer 2024, Fall 2022
English 3AA3: “Theories of Gender and Sexuality” Fall 2023, Fall 2020
English 3GG3: “Theories of Decolonization and Resistance” Winter 2023
Gender Studies 1A03: “Race, Gender, Culture, Power” Winter 2022
English 3A03: “Critical Race Theory” Fall 2021, Winter 2021
2. Concordia University
ENGL 262: “British Literature from 1660-1900” Winter 2020, Winter 2019
ENCS 393: “Social and Ethical Dimensions of ICTs” Winter 2020, Fall 2019
ENGR 392: “Impact of Technology on Society” Winter 2020, Fall 2019
ENCS 282: “Technical Writing and Communication” Summer 2019
ENGL 260: “Introduction to Literary Studies” Fall 2018
Editorial Appointments
Editorial Assistant, sx salon.
Guest co-editor, “Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding.” Studies in Social Justice, forthcoming, Fall 2024.
Editor-in-Chief, Insight Journal, Concordia University’s journal of English Literary Studies for graduate student writing, 2018 - 2020.
Awards & Honours
2022
(i) Best New Poets Award nominee
2021
(i) Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
(ii) SSHRC Joseph M. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
2020
(i) McMaster Graduate Entrance Award
(ii) McMaster Doctoral Scholarship
(iii) Graduate Fellow and Researcher in Digital Humanities, The Lewis and Ruth Sherman Center for Digital Scholarship, McMaster University, 2020-2021.
(iv) Valedictorian and Commencement Speaker, English Literature, Concordia University.
Publications
Academic Journals
2023
“The Cliff Lashley Bibliography.” SX Salon vol. 42.
“Constellations of Community, Care, and Knowledge: A Collection of Vignettes from Pandemic Times.” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities vol. 3, no. 4.
2022
“Writing the Queer Caribbean / Canada / Beyond: A Conversation with H. Nigel Thomas.” Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies vol. 10.
Poetry
2023
“The Arrival of Birds,” “Fe A-We,” and “Ritual.” Intersect Antigua (Summer 2023).
2022
“After the Travancore.” Wasafiri 110 (Summer 2022).
“Interview with a Chichi man.” Headlight Anthology 23 (Winter 2022).
2021
“Progress,” and “Footnotes of my Husband.” Kola Magazine 33. 1 (Summer 2021).
“A French Canadian, but not really, moves to Hamilton.” Hamilton Arts and Letters (Summer, 2021).
“Quandary,” and “April 15, 2020.” House Anthology 2e (Winter 2021).
2020
“Unmute.” Montreal Writes (Summer 2020).
2019
“Maro – An Evocation,” and “The Gift of Dying.” Insight Journal 2.1 (Winter 2019).
“Brown Matter,” and “Blooming.” Emotional Magazine (Winter 2019).
Public Scholarship
2023
“This is (not) (hi)story, this is a life being lived: Queeribbean quotidians, Caribbean Inheritances.” Belonging, Identity, Language and Diversity (BILD), McGill University (Spring 2023).
2022
“Rupaul’s Drag Race contestant, Maddy Morphosis, sparks conversations about cishet inclusion and queer discomfort.” The Conversation (Winter 2022).
2021
“Constellations of Queer Caribbean and Diaspora Literary Histories Online: Symbols into Subjects, Texts into Testimony and Praxis.” Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, McMaster University (Spring 2021).
2020
“Gifts: On Queerness, CXCs, English B and Caribbean Society.” Belonging, Identity, Language and Diversity (BILD), McGill University (Fall 2020).
Book Reviews
2024
Caribbean Womanist Philosophies and Jacinth Howard’s The Mother Island. Journal of West Indian Literature vol. 32, no. 4.
2022
A Brief History of Infidels: Ayaz Pirani’s How Beautiful People Are.” Hamilton Arts and Letters ( Summer 2022)
2021
“Blessings and Curses: The poiesis of Queer Caribbean and Diaspora Living.” Sx Salon ( Fall 2021).
2019
“We Keep Writing.” A collaborative Review of Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk.” The Puritan (Winter 2019).
Conference, Talks, Readings
Conference Papers &/ Talks
2024
“When the Guts of a Nation Spilled On Us: Vincentian Women’s Writing and Volcanic Times.” Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (CAPS), Concordia University, Montreal, June 12, 2024.
2022
“Shifting Vernaculars: Power, Deviancy, and Queer Caribbean Photographic Histories.” Counter-Image International Conference, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Lisbon, July 14, 2022.
“Re-Placing Literature: Mobilizing Emergent Strategy to Decolonize Our Institutional Practices.” Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS), June 15, 2022.
2021
“On Public Scholarship and the Digital Humanities: Building Community in a Time of Online Learning.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, June 17, 2021.
“Solidarity Through Scholarship: Queer West Indian Literary Histories, Ethical Citation Methods, and the Digital Humanities.” Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS), June 9, 2021.
2020
“Queering Antiracism Efforts: Ethical Citation Practice and Knowledge Production in the Classroom.” The Fall Institute, University of Ottawa, October 29, 2020.
“The Land of Yes?: The Unchartered Waters of Cultural Hannibalism in Wayde Compton’s The Outer Harbour and Dionne Brand’s Theory.” ISCS Graduate Conference, York University, March 6-7 2020.
“On Queerness and Blackness in the Academe.” Struggling Together in Higher Education, Decolonial Perspectives and Practices (DPP), Concordia University, February 20 2020.
2019
“Of the Past, the Present, and Futurity: An Introduction to Shazia Hafiz Ramji’s Port of Being.” Writers Read X Ecotones 6, Concordia University, October 24 2019.
“You Better Step Your Pu**y Up: Hyper-Femininity and Funny Bodies in Contemporary Drag Culture.” Queer Research Colloquium, McGill University, October 24-25 2019.
2018
“Queering Identity Archives: Cultivating New Caribbean Collections.” Off the Page Literary Festival, Concordia University, March 15-17 2018.
Poetry Readings
2024
Art Bar Poetry Series, Free Times Cafe, Toronto CA.
Tartan Turban Secrets 41, virtual event, Canada.
2023
Page Turners Plus Heritage Month Series, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
2022
Afterlives of Indenture: A Wasafiri Launch, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto CA.
Writers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The National Council for St. Vincent and the Grenadines UK, Zoom.
2020
Some of Us Did Not Die. Volta Collective, Zoom.
2019
Voices of Resilience. Fierté Montréal, Montreal CA.
Kola Reading Series. UNIA, Montreal CA.
Spectral Haunts: Issues of the Liminal Past and Looming Future. Concordia University, Montreal CA.